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RALPH
AINSCOUGH (1899 - 1967) |
Ralph
Ainscough 1914 |
This
is a portrait of Ralph Ainscough, my grandfather. I guess he
was probably about fifteen when this photograph was taken. I
knew him as a middle-aged, bespectacled man who liked his pipe
and a quiet life after his working day as a fitter. He was a
lifelong and staunch member of the St. John's Ambulance Brigade
and the Royal and Ancient Order of Buffalos, and I remember
him going off to "the Buffs" evenings at "The
Crown" at the top of Crown Lane in Horwich. He mended many
a cut and scrape by the liberal application of iodine and bandages
- and how the iodine stung! His other pastime was playing 78"
rpm records of light classics and Peter Dawson songs on the
wind-up gramophone in the corner of the front room. However,
that was posh, and most evenings were spent by the back kitchen
range with his pipe, the "wireless" and the local
paper. |
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